Matt Murphy

Hi, I’m Matt. Glad you found me.

I build programs, products, and the occasional thing that probably didn’t need to exist. This site might be one. I built it anyway.

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Matt Murphy

Tinkerer

Maker · Collector · Road-tripper

  • Show me the messWalk me through how it really works today, workarounds and all.
  • Build the useful bitSomething you can click, not another slide deck.

Eastern Iowa. Ask me about the last show I saw.

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Matt Murphy · Tinkerer
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Maker · Collector · Road-tripper
Show me the mess
Walk me through how it really works today, workarounds and all.
Build the useful bit
Something you can click, not another slide deck.
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Eastern Iowa. Ask me about the last show I saw.
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Who is Matt? · 001/012 · 1st Ed.
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On the back: House rules

  1. Figure out what’s worth building first.
  2. Something you can click beats a slide deck.
  3. AI does the busywork. People make the calls.
  4. Start small. Keep making it better.

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01Twelve cards to find

Who is Matt?

Each one is a true thing about me. Find them as you look around the site, and the About page fills in as you go.

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02The big three

Things I’m building

The ones I’m putting real time into right now. One is software, one is a research practice, and one has vending machines in it.

Pathway Builder

Live product

Workforce and academic teams at community colleges often plan in separate spreadsheets and documents. I built Pathway Builder to give them one shared workspace for programs, competencies, articulation and career context.

Read the storypathwaybuilder.app
The live pathway canvas on Pathway Builder’s homepage: a noncredit training node connects through competency evidence to a credit pathway and a career outcome, beside the headline “Make every route from training to degree visible”.
Screenshotpathwaybuilder.app, public homepage, September 2026

Wavelength

One of the serious ones

Live service

Evidence before investment.

My program-development studio for community colleges. It helps them decide which workforce programs are worth building, then helps build them. I lead it through Confluence Labs, the company I founded.

Read the storywithwavelength.com
Wavelength’s public research page, headed “Research that shows its work”, with topic filters and the first articles in its archive.
Screenshotwithwavelength.com/blog, public research page, September 2026

Corridor Cards

The one with vending machines

Operating business

My trading-card business: sealed-pack vending machines, an online shop and an eBay store. It’s where my ideas about automation have to work on a Tuesday night, not just in a demo.

Read the storycorridorcards.com
A Corridor Cards vending machine’s wrap: “Corridor Cards” in red and orange comic lettering beside a panel of teal question-mark tiles, with a tiled indoor floor behind the machine.
Photocorridorcards.com, homepage hero, September 2026

Also on the bench

  • Encore

    In development

    Registration and class operations for continuing-education teams. Still building it.

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  • Listing pipeline

    In regular use

    Photos in, checked eBay drafts out. I publish every listing myself.

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  • GroomJobs

    Publishing experiment

    Career guides and calculators for groomers and salon owners. No account needed.

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All projects

03The short version

I build programs.

Mostly education and training programs. Sometimes software. Occasionally both at the same time.

I help turn fuzzy ideas into real offerings⁠—workforce programs, customized training, personal enrichment, professional education, conferences, and whatever else is worth building.

I like the whole process: finding the opportunity, figuring out if anyone actually wants it, designing the experience, modeling the economics, and getting it launched.

Working on a program? See how my program work fits together

Need another brain on this?

Not everything is a program. I’m happy to think through these too.

See how I work with people

04Side quests

Things I made because I wanted them to exist

Not everything needs a business case. These are the two I work on when a week leaves me with AI tokens to spare.

  • TourTrip (working title)

    Web app Leftover tokens

    A trip planner that connects the music to the travel: the shows, the drive between them, and everything along the way.

    Read about it

  • Glint

    iPhone game Leftover tokens

    A calm little game where you grow a tree, one small choice a day.

    Read about it

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